E. CORRADINI. "ITALIAN NATIONALISM"

Enrico Corradini. *Italian Nationalism*. Milan, 1914.

Written before the war. In the article "Nationalism and Socialism" (14 January 1914) there are interesting formulations of an imperialist of a small nation. France and England = banks with capital of 300 and 400 billion (p. 162). The plutocratic nations (France, England, Germany) are "inclined toward pacifism" (sic!) (ha-ha!) "chiefly because they are plutocratic" (188), whereas the proletarian nations (Italy), fighting against Turkey, were fighting against plutocratic nations (sic!! ha-ha!). Imperialism, it seems, is a contemporary phenomenon, but it divides nations into plutocratic and proletarian; "this (nationalism) is the socialism of the Italian nation in the world" (156).

Therein lies the whole essence of this wretched little book: other nations rob much. "Socialism" consists in our small and poor nation catching up to or catching up with the plunderers, so that it too might plunder even more!!

A DISCUSSION BETWEEN TURATI AND SERRATI

NB *Avanti!* 15. II. 1917 and 18. II. (*Giornale d'Italia*, 18. II. 1917, on these disagreements)

A discussion (in Milan 15. II.) between Turati (for "national rights" and for reforms?) and Serrati ("In sostanza egli ritiene che questa guerra non ciderà la soluzione del problema della nazionalità e che è vano, per i socialisti, sperare di ottenere questa soluzione ed affaticarsi per essa").

NEITHER GERMAN, NOR FRENCH

*Avanti!* 20. II. 1917. Editorial. "Neither German, nor French" — concerning the book by the Belgian Omer Boulanger *L'Internationale a vécu* (that the German [International] has outlived its usefulness, now it will be French). Against social-patriots very decisively.

"The recent measures by His Excellency Alberto Thomas to establish compulsory arbitration are a proof of French socialism moving toward a State socialism and bourgeois collaborationism that have absolutely nothing whatever to do with the program of the old *Internationale*. In this sense Omer Boulanger is perfectly right; the *Internationale* is dead. But it is the bungling Germans and French, English and Russians, Belgians and Bulgarians, Austrians and Italians who have killed it."